Thursday, February 27, 2014

Return of The Tower King

Compared to the massive amount of classic American comics material reprinted in recent years, fans of UK comics are poorly served. The 120 plus year history of British comics is gradually being forgotten (or worse, never discovered) by new generations due to some publishers having no interest in reprinting their old material. However, thanks to independent outfits such as Hibernia Comics, some material is being brought to a new audience. (They did a Doomlord collection several years ago, and have published books on the history of selected comics.) With an arrangement with the Dan Dare Corporation who now own much of the Eagle material, Hibernia Comics have this week released a collection of The Tower King. This serial of a post-apocalyptic Britain plunged back into a mediaeval style scenario was written by Alan Hebden and drawn by José Ortiz and was one of the highlights of the new Eagle when it launched in 1982.

Thanks for the post Lew, my order is already in! I've bought stuff from Hibernia before (the Valiant edition) & it was great, well worth the money!I missed the Revamped Eagle when it came out so this strip is completely new to me but I'm glad these strips are being made available again, the more the merrier!!!

Nice stuff, and here's hoping this leads to more reprints of some of the 80s Eagle strips - I'd love to see some more Ortiz, like THE FIFTH HORSEMAN, for example, or THE FISTS OF DANNY PYKE, which had some lovely John Burns artwork.

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I work as a professional humour comics artist and writer and have been freelancing full time since 1984, creating many characters such as TOM THUG, PETE AND HIS PIMPLE, COMBAT COLIN, BRICKMAN, ROBO-CAPERS, DEREK THE TROLL, SUBURBAN SATANISTS and others.
I've freelanced for IPC, Marvel Comics, Egmont, Panini,D.C. Thomson, and many others, covering the comics field from originated characters to licensed properties, pre-school to adult on comics such as BUSTER, OINK!, BEANO, DANDY, TRANSFORMERS, SONIC THE COMIC, TOXIC, VIZ, CiTV TELLYTOTS, LEGO ADVENTURES, HERMAN HEDNING, SWEET FA, ACTION FORCE, SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN, RAMPAGE, LUCKY BAG COMIC, SWIFTSURE, WARLOCK, WHITE DWARF, ACES WEEKLY, THE DAREDEVILS, THE MIGHTY WORLD OF MARVEL, and many more.
My recent comics work has included:'Team Toxic' for Egmont's TOXIC magazine'Postman Prat', 'Kid Cops' and 'The Dark Newt' for THE DANDY'Rasher', 'Pup Parade', 'Lord Snooty' and 'Ivy the Terrible' for THE BEANO.
'The Daft Dimension' for DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE.